Streamer Junkie

Last Ramblings of a Trout Season by Mark Usyk

   I figured it might be a now or never type situation when I told JP we should make a run up north to fish the stream we did our...
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Private Brook Trout Waters by Mark Usyk

Here we were, me and JP, on a privately owned lake on fifty-thousand acres of privately owned land in the Adirondacks, gliding away from a submerged dock after John gave...
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A Trout Rut by Mark Usyk

I caught a really good brook trout up north, in the 20” range. Then I didn’t fish for two weeks and when I finally did I caught a great 21”...
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I'm a Horrible Dry Fly Fisherman by Mark Usyk

I don’t know why, but for some reason I always thought things would get easier as you get older. You know, the longer you do something the easier it should...
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It's the Least I Can Do by Mark Usyk

It starts as several little branches, wandering through the Adirondacks like lost souls without a care. Some begin as the outflows of small ponds with no names in a boreal...
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The Rookies by Mark Usyk

I’m a rookie fly fisherman, and I make all the rookie mistakes. I make too many false casts. I don’t match the hatch. I don’t have a back pocket full...
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Fish Ain't Needy by Mark Usyk

Need. NEED? What do you really need? Let's be honest, all anyone truly needs is food, water, and oxygen. Something to eat, water to drink, air to breath. Everything else...
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Where the Fish Are by Mark Usyk

A few e-mails during the week had set up our first outing of the new Trout season. On opening day I was driving north, the Jeeps windshield wipers slashing through...
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